Level 9 -10 Regional Championships in Utah (hosted by Arete Gymnastics: http://www.kidsuniverse.info) scores are online: http://meetscoresonline.com/results.asp?tax=1&meet=10711&sess=1 Find out how your club and friends did if you're not there!

Here's an article for the USA Gymnastics Level 9 Region 5 Championships at Northwood University: "Bay Valley gymnasts move on to nationals" - http://www.mlive.com/sports/bctimes/index.ssf?/base/sports-1/1177236928301940.xml&coll=4

Regionals in Texas: "Gym dandies Regionals a chance for Rahm sisters, Muhr to show what they can do" - http://www.gjsentinel.com/sports/content/sports/stories/2007/04/21/4_22_js_gymnasticscenter_WWW.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=12 Interesting article! [quote]The road to Level 9 Regionals this weekend in Dallas, Texas, was littered with years of dedicated practice, triumphs, heartbreaks and setbacks. Though each is at a different point in their careers, they all relish the chance to match skills in tumbling and on the balance beam, uneven bars and vault with elite gymnasts from seven states, including Texas, a hotbed for prospective Olympians.

to check for qualifying to the level 9 Western & Eastern championships, you can check here for how many qualify per age group per region: 2007 Level 9 Western & Eastern Championships Number of Qualifiers per region http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/women/2007/EastWestQual2007.pdf

"Hermantown Gymnast Heading To The National Tournament" - http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/sports/Default.aspx?NStoryID=5989 Maile'ana Kanewa: The Hermantown Gymnastics Academy. 13 years old, practices 30 hours a week. She got 2nd place in the regional meet this weekend (7 states in the region) and will compete at Nationals in Spokane, Washington next month. There's video too!! click the link in the article or this: http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/video/Video.aspx?stype=sn&sTitle=&clip=6gymnast&storyID=5989 Guess what?? Like a lot of other gymnasts she practices in shorts and the video on her has her with shorts too!! Yay shorts! lol

From Michigan Level 10 Regionals to Level 10 Nationals, article on gymnast Taira Neal: "Neal first local gymnast to reach Level 10 nationals" - http://pantagraph.com/articles/2007/04/26/sports/doc463012c46b31f752905910.txt come-back from 2 falls on bars: [quote]In her first event of the day, Neal fell twice on the uneven bars, leaving her in an early deficit.